TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES IN THE 20TH CENTURY

• Railroads allowed people to travel faster• Promoted Commuting to Work• Less Travel Time = More Vacation

Time

TRAINS

Train Depot at American Fork 1912

Lagoon – resort for swimming, dancing and horseracing

Saltair- Amusement park and resort along Great Salt Lake

• http://www.history.com/shows/modern-marvels/videos/electricity-invented-sparks-fly#car-invented-world-drastically-changed

• 1900 – 20 automobiles• 1909- 873

automobiles

• At first no paved roads and few gas stations• Shared road with

horses• Few mechanics

and no tow trucks

AUTOMOBILES

PAVING 1300 EAST IN SLC

Monday 12th - Last Day to Turn in Missing/Redo Assignments. Divide ourselves into North and South. Complete Path to Secession definitions and game (Must get Hard Copy from Mrs. P)Tuesday 13th - South Secedes Reading Guide and start to write Speech "Was Secession Ok?" Southern States Secede Reading Guide (READING GUIDE  and SPEECH DUE 3/14).Wednesday 14th - Finish Speeches. 10 people will randomly be selected to deliver speechThursday 15th - Grade Warm Ups! Start Key Details of War, I and II (We will work on this throughout Civil War unit. This packet will be DUE 3/26)Friday 16th- End of Quarter 3! No School

AUTOMOBILES SHARED THE ROAD WITH HORSES

• The Wright Brothers First Flight – 1903 in North Carolina• Utah’s first flight –

1910• At first =

entertainment • Much later =

transportation

AIRPLANES

THE ALBATROSS

• http://www.history.com/shows/modern-marvels/videos/electricity-invented-sparks-fly#electricity-invented-sparks-fly

CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS?

CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS?

CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS?

CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS?

CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS?

CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS?

• First use of electric lights – Cleveland, OH 1878• Electric lights in SLC – 1880–First generated by steam!–Then generated by water

• By 1920’s most urban places had electricity

ELECTRICITY

• http://www.history.com/shows/modern-marvels/videos/electricity-invented-sparks-fly#the-telegraph-and-telephone

• Alexander Graham Bell – inventor• 1880- Local UT

calls• Wendover 1914-

Transcontinental calls!–wires were

joined to complete telephone circuit from NYC to San Francisco

TELEPHONES

• Not one inventor – many scientists contributed to radio “idea”• Originally

called “wireless telegraphy”• 1922- First

radio broadcast in Utah on KZN KSL

RADIO